What are fire extinguishers made of?
Fire extinguishers take sheet steel, paint, brass, baking soda, nitrogen gas and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 46 made things on the way to 24 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 24 raw materials
- Water through baking soda
- Trona through baking soda
- Limestone through baking soda
- Rock salt through baking soda
- Air through nitrogen gas
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Copper ore through brass, copper
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Crude oil through brass, aluminum
- Coal through brass, aluminum
- Natural gas through baking soda, carbon dioxide
- Corn through baking soda, carbon dioxide
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Bauxite through brass, aluminum, alumina
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugarcane through baking soda, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through baking soda, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 40 things
Metals 12
Chemicals and fuels 23
Titanium dioxidePigmentAmmoniaSoda ashCarbon dioxideCarbon blackOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidChlorinePropyleneMethanolPetroleum cokeNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePropaneCaustic sodaHydrogenTolueneCharcoal